Posted on 07/24/2022 3:25:10 AM PDT by Libloather
(CNN) - Paying for some Bruce Springsteen tickets these days may be “Tougher Than The Rest.”
That’s because Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” has some seats reaching $4000 to $5000 a seat.
The high prices are not going over well.
“I’m sure you won’t see this @springsteen but you or your management need to have a word with the abhorrent criminals running @Ticketmaster who are charging exorbitant amounts to see you in concert,” one person tweeted. “Please listen to your fans, nobody can afford these ridiculous ticket prices.”
Writer John Semley tweeted that Springsteen should “write a song about a working man refinancing his car and home to purchase bruce springsteen tickets.”
“i got a sixty-nine chevy /with a three-ninety-six fuelie heads /and a hurst on the floor/i had to sell it to go see the Boss at the Wells-Fargo Center,” he suggested as lyrics.
Stevie Van Zandt, “The Sopranos” star and a member of Springsteen’s E Street Band, responded to the uproar by tweeting in part “I have nothing whatsoever to do with the price of tickets.”
**SNIP**
Prices started around $60 for some of the seats furthest from the stage.
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Ticketmaster's "dynamic pricing" cost me $650/seat to see Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats at Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I thought that was bad!
He gives his money to Commie Rats and supports them! LOL
Pikers! I burned songwriting down to one chord. Technically some may argue that in playing bits of a barred major chord at different times is more than one chord but still, you can hold the one chord and do the entire song.
There is an easy solution, don’t buy them, don’t go and if you must, listen to a recording in the comfort of your own home.
Not a problem.
When he comes on the radio, the radio goes off. Quite simple.
I bought at least ten albums a month, mixed my own tapes. Wasn't much for me to do after hours, as I lived a dozen miles off base. No TV for four years, it wasn't that bad.
Weekends during the summer, you'd find me driving up and down the Mosel River, looking for winefests, or I'd drive up to Koblenz to dine at the Konigsbacher brewery: great jagerschnitzel and bock beer on tap.
Came back to the states with over 400 albums, still have them, too.
“I am a Tull junkie and I still have my Stand Up “pop up” LP like this one. It was a great album. Very bluesy.”
I saw the “Songs from the Wood” tour at Madison Square Garden. Think I paid eight bucks for the ticket.
What a greedy capitalist pig. No wonder he tries to sell himself as a poor, blue collar guitar player fightin’ for “da little peoples”. He’s a rich POS.
He won’t mind if I get his stuff off Pirate Bay, will he? /s
Wanted to add, my collection has nothing from Springsteen.
He sounds like he is “singing” while pinching a loaf.
You got it. He definitely doesn’t need all that money.
Later, when the "master recording" albums hit the market, I went to town on Spyrogyra, among others.
“Never got to see Southside Johnny though, but during a “dramatic shoot” on one of the stone jetties in front of the old convention center, I was knocked off and nearly washed out to sea by a surprise wave.”
I saw South Side at a benefit for Senator Bill Bradley. It was at Brendan Byrne arena. My wife was a reporter at the time so we went to the show.
If the market will bear it, good for him!
Or should we have price control? There’s no shortage of progressives who believe they could set “fair” prices for his concerts based on customer need.
He’s the ultimate hypocrite.
Contrast with Tom Petty, who protested and got his record company to lower the price of his record.
The entire show cost me drinks (no cover), that's about it. I warned my wife I'd start singing after the second beer, she gave me a ghastly look...lol.
Last two concerts I've been to over the past 2-3 years have been Eric Clapton concerts: Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas, and a concert with Jimmie Vaughan in Fort Worth last September. Both were great concerts, even from the cheap seats.
Springsteen has fans? Coulda fooled me!
Ian Anderson said he considered Hotel California to be a tribute, “a bit like this tribute Rolex I’m wearing.”
You can bet Bruce has donated a ton of money to Rat politicians over the years.
Even if you want to financially support the singer you can buy every CD they ever made for less than a mid-range concert ticket. And all that without some drunk next to you at the show.
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